Among many of my photos, there is one that can best illustrate my style, the photo above was taken at the beach of Santa Cruz, California, I was taking random pictures that day, but when I saw the boy rushing into the sea, towards the wave, a strong instinct stroke me in the head that I should let the moment stay forever. When we were young, we knew little about the danger and complexity of the adults’ world, we were not scared, and even attracted by the risks, just like the boy in red shirt who seemed to embrace the wave, for he didn’t know how dangerous it could be. Normally after choking by the wave could the boy finally realize how dangerous the wave could be, then next time he would be better prepared and wear a life jacket, isn’t it just like growing up? The wave is like the unknown future and the boy in red shirt is just like us when we were young.

  Afterwards a little PS adjustment was done at my will, the background color tone was dimmed as a combination of black and white, which is gray as we can see. I am a solitary man since childhood because the little boy spotted lots of ugliness that exclusively belongs to the adults’ world only, so black and white was my favorite tone when editing photos. Why is black and white, or gray? I just think the tone is best fitted with my emotion, but the specific explanation is absent as usual until I read the “colors” column last week, the authors of which gave me the exact explanations I’ve been pursuing for so long. Paul La Farge, the author of “Black” thinks the color characterizes traits such as darkness, uncertainty and oppressiveness, he sensed such feelings when he once entered a big cave. The world of adults is very different from the kids’, there is no more innocent fairy tales and utopias, only cheating and fierce, ugly competitions which breed thousands of other forms of ugliness, it is a world of uncertainty, darkness and oppressiveness, just like the cave Paul La Farge entered that day. David Byrne, the author of “Pink” wrote in the article, “Pink, inasmuch as it is a watered-down red—the fiercest of colors (does anyone doubt me here?)—was naturally associated with boys, with their instinctive attraction to fire trucks and sports cars. ”. Pink or red is a fiercer and more promising color, which symbolizes hope and passion, so I preserved the original color of the boy’s shirt on purpose just to present and enlarge the boy’s fearlessness, so that it could produce a huge contrast, that is what I want to present through the photo.

  This is also partially enlightened by the little girl in red coat in the movie Schindler's List by Steven Allan Spielberg, please take a look at the picture above, in this movie of black and white, this red is the only other color, which is also the symbol of hope , fearlessness and passion. Unfortunately, the red was at last immersed by the black of white, and finally disappeared totally, maybe this is what we called growing up. 

  The shapes I captured were found during my trip to Da Li, a beautiful city in southern China. The primary shape I used is a fish. I combined it with a shape of combined rectangular. The author two shapes I used are shape of a tower and a lotus fruit. In the first pattern, I create a pattern of repetition of the same fish, and repeat the pattern to fill the whole campus. In the second patter, I do not fill the shapes but simply have it with their black outlines. I want the shapes going to the center of the campus where the shape of the tower is placed. In the third patter, I add color to the shapes to make it more interesting.

  Although the object of protecting the world's cultural heritage is mainly about material culture, it also emphasizes the importance of spiritual culture— the history, religion, thought, art, technology, and so on. These “heritages” contain the spirit and wisdom of human beings, which tells people that economic development cannot destroy nature and the heritages that our ancestors left us . The world is supposed to be a place where human beings , nature and culture live in harmony, this was the purpose of mine to create this magazine in the first place, not only to introduce scenery resorts for people’s vacation, it’s more about reminding us what still left after so many centuries’ cultural destruction, the side effects of the rapid human economic and technological progress. It is good for us to realize that we still possess heritages but not many, which is worth thinking what we did wrong and what should we do next in the future.

  The plot of “the Library of Babel” is not complicated. The narratives are all about the things in the library, from librarians to books in rumors, to the legendary foyer, and the bad things that human did to the books... ...the content seems to be tedious , but it highlights the "unlimited&infinite" nature of the library.

  At the beginning of the "the Library of Babel", he called the library "the universe". The library is infinite, because its infinity contains a variety of combinations of words, including the infinite possibilities of the development of world knowledge. The author believes that the books in the library are an interpretation of the world order and all knowledge and problems. This versatile library, the omnipotent universe contains the whole human knowledge，and also implies the secrets that presage the future development of mankind. This is very similar to Tim Berners Lee’s WWW, which is also deemed as infinite, full of all possible combinations of word and language, as well as all the human wisdom.

  In this NY Art Book Fair 2019, as a novice artist, I was astonished and also excited to see so many spectacular works which created by the most successful predecessors across the world, Among Whom, artists like Iwan Baan, Bernard Faucon, Birthe Piontek impress me the most, they give me a strong sense of responsibility and hope to work harder so that one day I would stand a chance to join their league. Here I will focus on Iwan Baan and the works of his.

  The thing I’m attracted to is his attitude towards photography, specifically speaking, it is his combined attitude of both conventionality and unconventionality. The work below shows us a very neat, well organized structure of the photo, a building which is still under construction. The photo is divided into plenty of equal sized units, this is the conventionality I am talking about, simple and fresh.

  The worker who’s doing bench press brings a sense of well-being to the building, making the atmosphere of the photo more lively. Baan's purpose is not to produce a picture that is as neat as a rendered picture, but to record the real scene and the stories that occur. Before shooting, he does not do too much background investigation, nor does he care about the weather conditions for he thinks the quality of a building will not change because of the weather conditions. He tries to record the reality with an open mind. To reduce the photographer's presence in the photos, he doesn't need a tripod, and the equipment is as light as possible. After the shooting is finished, the picture is rarely post-processed, the only he does is merely color correction, and this is the unconventionality I am talking about.

  Iwan Baan is a warrior who has taken a different approach to traditional architectural photography. In his eyes, architectural photography is not just about recording a few buildings, the composition of the interior space, In Iwan Baan's work, people play an important role in the space of architecture. Because they are vivid, the building becomes more unique with some unique temperament (caused by humanities), which impresses the viewers very much.

  At last, Iwan Baan’s works coincide with the purpose of visual thinking class for a great deal. “This course is designed to expose you to basic visual ideas and a variety of imaging media in order to help you develop a visual language based on contemporary, cross-disciplinary and cultural artistic strategies. ” Iwan Baan’s unique perspective and technique gives me a very strong visual impact, which is also very helpful for me to develop my own visual language.

 The application of news photography in newspapers was since the traditional way of obtaining text information in newspapers changed to the picture information in images, which greatly improved people's visual requirements for content acquisition. After the application of new media such as television, people's methods of obtaining information gradually converted to visual media such as pictures, animations, and videos. Therefore, as a traditional medium, newspapers must reform the way of information transmission to adapt to the new preferences people acquire content, one of the effective methods is to increase the scope and quantity of news photography in newspapers. In the early stage of newspaper photography applications, the level of photography was low, the content that could be expressed in the works was scarce, and the readers’ visual effects and content obtained from them were limited. Therefore, the news photography at that time played a poor role in the newspaper, leading to The major newspapers control the quantity of pictures within a very small range. So in today's circumstances, when applying news photography pictures, it is necessary to ensure the authenticity of the content of news photography, shooting methods and techniques in order to truly exert the advantage of photographic pictures in traditional media such as newspapers and to improve the perception of the readers.

  It is always fun to do a thing without reason, that is why I spent hours staying at the corridor and some more hours in the park, my apartment and even at the entrance of the cinema, watching people come and go. In the busy hours of the day, it seems the stream of people would never stop running. Despite my enjoyment of observing the people moving, it’s not quite realistic for me to stay there for too long, my limited time is fighting the unlimited people stream at this moment. Then suddenly a hypothesis occurs in my mind, If I draw a square(or triangle or other shapes), and find the pivot of each side then connect them to form another smaller shape, keep doing this until it’s impossible to further implement on the paper, mathematically speaking, the original shape can shrink permanently, but the physical formation of the paper and the diameter of my pencil set a limit to the process when the shape shrinks to a curtain size. We actually encounter plenty of similar contradictions in our daily life, like centuries ago when human science level was still not as developed as today’s, people used to think the earth is infinite, and for a curtain level it makes sense because the earth is a globe, we can keep moving towards one direction forever. But later we found out earth is a finite planet, the quality and the size are fixed. The contradiction between finite and infinite will be omnipresent for a really long time, which is intriguing.